The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromχωρεπίσκοπος
- Latin · borrowed fromchōrepiscopus
- English todaychorepiscopus
Borrowed from Latin chōrepiscopus, from Ancient Greek χωρεπίσκοπος (khōrepískopos); χώρα (khṓra, “place, country”) + ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer, bishop”) (from ἐπί (epí, “on, upon, over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”)). Compare bishop.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.